How the Parents Sleep

I've actually gotten used to having our bed in the living room now (sort of). It has certainly made the place much more cramped but the boys adore playing on the air mattress so I haven't put forth the effort in putting it away. If I put it up against the wall they spend all of their time flopping it back down and making it a slide. It's actually good exercise for them to crawl up and slide down a billion times!

This past weekend I was desperate to get some more sleep so Jim threw on a show to distract the boys but they knew better than to fall for that one. I was besieged with the boys trying hard to cuddle up with me (yes that's me under those covers) and watch their show at the same time while I tried to get some sleep. I have to say I'm getting better at it. I used to never be able to fall back asleep!


Jim took a long road march with 75 pounds in his backpack this weekend. We had to go pick him up on his route (mile 6 or so for him) because he'd gotten some major blisters. As we came up to him I felt so bad. It looked like every step he was taking was pure torture. You could almost see the thought, "Must put one foot in front of the other. Must keep going!" He said he only had about 30 minutes to go at where we were supposed to meet but I think the boys and I would have been waiting for at least another hour to hour and a half!

When we got home the boys were down for a nap while Jim soaked his feet. I swear it wasn't even 5 minutes and I heard the snoring. The funny thing was I watched him startle awake and look at the laptop and furiously start clicking his mouse and then within 5 seconds he was out again. He doesn't even remember doing it :-)